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Still All About the PIGI'S

Daily State of the Markets Tuesday Morning – February 9, 2010   Good morning. The bulls tried mightily Monday to extend their streak of consecutive winning Monday’s to nine. But at the end of the day, worries about the PIGI’S and global growth prospects wound up pushing to Dow to another...

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Euro was confined to narrower ranges

EUR/USD The Euro was confined to narrower ranges during Monday as support levels near the 1.36 region against the dollar held while there was resistance above the 1.37 level. Underlying sentiment towards the Euro-zone economy and Euro certainly remained generally weak as debt fears surrounding...

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Chart Presentation: Decade Spin

We are not sure exactly when we first introduced the argument regarding the ‘decade theme’ but we suspect that it was some time back around 2004. We recall adding a list of stocks in January of 2005 that we felt would do well into 2007 so it had to be some time before that. In any event... the...

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Stock Market: Testing…

Stock Market: testing… S&P 500 Composite (SPX) closed lower but held above Friday’s intraday low. SPX remains well above its rising 200-day simple moving average now at 1019.89. Various short-term momentum oscillators, such as RSI 14, turned down but still held above the recent lows and...

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WSJ: No Exit in Sight for US as Fannie (FNM), Freddie (FRE) Flail

This is a nice overview story in the Wall Street Journal on what FanFredron (Fannie + Freddie + Enron) have become:  a governmental warehouse of losses to subsidize the US housing market.  Supposedly 2010 was going to be the year the long term future of these entities was supposed to be...

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Trading the “January Effect”

Join Darrell Jobman, Senior Analyst for TraderPlanet.com as he conducts a webcast featuring VantagePoint Intermarket Analysis software to highlight: “As January goes, so goes the year,” according to trading lore. But how reliable is that market...  Watch video »


Trading Energy Markets in Uncertain Economic Times

Join Darrell Jobman, Senior Analyst for TraderPlanet.com as he conducts a webcast featuring VantagePoint Intermarket Analysis software to highlight: Energy price prospects depend, to a great degree, on the outlook for the global economy and the...  Watch video »


Trading Metals During Economic Uncertainty

Join Darrell Jobman, Senior Analyst for TraderPlanet.com as he conducts a live webcast featuring VantagePoint Intermarket Analysis software to highlight: Gold, silver and copper all play key roles in the outlook for economic recovery and the...  Watch video »


Trading Market Opinions with Options

Join Darrell Jobman, Senior Analyst for TraderPlanet.com as he conducts a webcast featuring VantagePoint Intermarket Analysis software to highlight: Options can be a good way to boost leverage but can also be a good way to gauge market sentiment...  Watch video »


Trading Longer-Term Indicators in Stocks

Join Darrell Jobman, Senior Analyst for TraderPlanet.com as he conducts a webcast featuring VantagePoint Intermarket Analysis software to highlight: Interpreting indicator forecasts How, where and when to enter a position Deciding when to...  Watch video »


Dow Theory Will Help You Be a Better Trader

The Dow Theory works on the fundamental principle that markets do not operate independent of one another. Like orbiting bodies in physics, markets influence one another in direct proportion to distance from another. In the case of the Dow Theory,...  Read More »


Yahoo! The Dow Theory

Finally, folks, we get to it – the Dow Theory … The first thing you need to understand is I am not big on theories that purport to predict broad-market movement. Like individual markets, the broad-market is subject to the often irrational...  Read More »


Knowledge, Actualization, and Screwing Up

Knowledge is one thing, actualization of that knowledge is something else entirely. In my mind, this fundamental difference is the source of the problems we create for ourselves, problems arising out of the inability to do what we know is the...  Read More »


TraderPlanet and SFO Magazine, Free Education For All

It appears we have one more day before I get to the Dow Theory. Today, I am getting back online after having my computer operating system corrupted from the MWS_Trojan virus. This virus is from Russia, and apparently it is tricky. Somehow it...  Read More »


Fantasy, Reality, Magic, and Trading

Today, I wanted to tell you about the book I read on the Dow Theory for trading, but, instead, before getting into the serious topic of Charles Dow and his Theory on trading, I thought I might share with you a question that recently came to me....  Read More »


ChandlerParis

I began my career as a trader over twenty years ago before moving into technical business analyst roles. My fundamental understanding of the industry enables me to interface most effectively with business and technology units within a trading environment. I am a true asset to any trading related...

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SFOMag

SFO – Stocks, Futures and Options, the Official Advocate for Personal Investors – has been devoted to the personally active trader of stocks, futures and options since 2001.  SFO covers strategies, techniques and resources related to trading as well as a specific feature interview each month. ...

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globalinvesting

Vivian Lewis is editor and founder of Global-Investing.com, the daily blog newsletter for Americans and others seeking to internationalize their portfolios. She brings unique experience and competences to the business of picking foreign stocks. After graduating from Harvard magna cum laude (and...

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